1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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48. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
1. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 49. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2. Saturday, Ian McEwan 50. The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargos Llosa
3. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 51. An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma
4. Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee 52. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
5. Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
6. The Sea, John Banville 54. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
7. The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble 55. The Heart of Redness, Zakes Mda
8. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 56. Under the Skin, Michel Faber
9. The Master, Colm Tóibín 57. Ignorance, Milan Kundera
10. Vanishing Point, David Markson 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven, David Peace
11. The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd 59. Celestial Harmonies, Péter Esterházy
12. Dining on Stones, Iain Sinclair 60. City of God, E.L. Doctorow
13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 61. How the Dead Live, Will Self
14. Drop City, T. Coraghessan Boyle 62. The Human Stain, Philip Roth
15. The Colour, Rose Tremain 63. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
16. Thursbitch, Alan Garner 64. After the Quake, Haruki Marakami
17. The Light of Day, Graham Swift 65. Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande
18. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt 66. Super-Cannes, J.G. Ballard
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 67. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Haddon 68. Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
20. Islands, Dan Sleigh 69. Pastoralia, George Saunders
21. Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
22. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair 1900's
23. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
24. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 70. Timbuktu, Paul Auster
25. The Double, José Saramago 71. The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
26. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer 72. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
27. Unless, Carol Shields 73. As If I Am Not There, Slavenka Drakuli
28. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami 74. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
29. The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor 75. Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun, John McGahern 76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
31. In the Forest, Edna O'Brien 77. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
32. Shroud, John Banville 78. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
33. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 79. Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
34. Youth, J.M. Coetzee 80. Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi
35. Dead Air, Iain Banks 81. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
36. Nowhere Man, Aleksandar Hemon 82. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
37. The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster 83. All Souls Day, Cees Nooteboom
38. Gabriel's Gift, Hanif Kureishi 84. The Talk of the Town, Ardal O'Hanlon
39. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 85. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
40. Platform, Michael Houellebecq 86. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
41. Schooling, Heather McGowan 87. Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
42. Atonement, Ian McEwan 88. Another World, Pat Barker
43. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 89. The Hours, Michael Cunningham
44. Don't Move, Margaret Mazzantini 90. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho
45. The Body Artist, Don DeLillo 91. Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
46. Fury, Salman Rushdie 92. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden 144. The House of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
94. Great Apes, Will Self 145. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
95. Enduring Love, Ian McEwan 146. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
96. Underworld, Don DeLillo 147. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
97. Jack Maggs, Peter Carey 148. Life is a Caravanserai, Emine Özdamar
98. The Life of Insects, Victor Pelevin 149. The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth 150. A Heart So White, Javier Marias
100. The Untouchable, John Banville 151. Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker
101. Silk, Alessandro Baricco 152. Indigo, Marina Warner
102. Cocaine Nights, J.G. Ballard 153. The Crow Road, Iain Banks
103. Hallucinating Foucault, Patricia Duncker 154. Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
104. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels 155. Jazz, Toni Morrison
105. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker 156. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
106. Forever a Stranger, Hella Haasse 157. Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg
107. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 158. The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
108. The Clay Machine-Gun, Victor Pelevin 159. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
109. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 160. The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibín
110. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro 161. Asphodel, Hilda Doolittle
111. Movern Callar, Alan Warner 162. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
112. The Information, Martin Amis 163. Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
113. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie 164. Arcadia, Jim Crace
114. Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth 165. Wild Swans, Jung Chang
115. The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald 166. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
116. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink 167. Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
117. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 168. Mao II, Don DeLillo
118. Love's Work, Gillian Rose 169. Typical, Padgett Powell
119. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis 170. Regeneration, Pat Barker
120. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster 171. Downriver, Iain Sinclair
121. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst 172. Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres
122. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq 173. Wise Children, Angela Carter
123. Land, Park Kyong-ni 174. Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
124. The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee 175. Amongst Women, John McGahern
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami 176. Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi 177. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
127. City Sister Silver, Jàchym Topol 178. Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
128. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman 179. The Music of Chance, Paul Auster
129. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 180. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
130. Felicia's Journey, William Trevor 181. A Home at the End of the World, Michael
131. Disappearance, David Dabydeen Cunningham
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm 182. Like Life, Lorrie Moore
133. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx 183. Possession, A.S. Byatt
134. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh 184. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi
135. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 185. The Midnight Examiner, William Kotzwinkle
136. Looking for the Possible Dance, A.L. Kennedy 186. A Disaffection, James Kelman
137. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth 187. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
138. Complicity, Iain Banks 188. Moon Palace, Paul Auster
139. On Love, Alain de Botton 189. Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
140. What a Carve Up!, Jonathan Coe 190. Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
141. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 191. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai
142. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields 192. The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
143. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides 193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago 244. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
195. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel 245. White Noise, Don DeLillo
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving 246. Queer, William Burroughs
197. London Fields, Martin Amis 247. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
198. The Book of Evidence, John Banville 248. Legend, David Gemmell
199. Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood 249. Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavi
200. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco 250. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty, Edmund White 251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose
202. Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson Saramago
203. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 252. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
204. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst 253. Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
205. Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey 254. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
206. Libra, Don DeLillo 255. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
207. The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
208. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga 257. Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams 258. Neuromancer, William Gibson
210. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas 259. Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
Adams 260. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
211. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble 261. Shame, Salman Rushdie
212. The Afternoon of a Writer, Peter Handke 262. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
213. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy 263. Fools of Fortune, William Trevor
214. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson 264. La Brava, Elmore Leonard
215. The Pigeon, Patrick Suskind 265. Waterland, Graham Swift
216. The Child in Time, Ian McEwan 266. The Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
217. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews 267. The Diary of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe 268. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
219. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster 269. The Sorrow of Belgium, Hugo Claus
220. World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle 270. If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
221. Enigma of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul 271. A Boy's Own Story, Edmund White
222. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae 272. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
223. Beloved, Toni Morrison 273. Wittgenstein's Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
224. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore 274. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
225. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 275. Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
226. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates 276. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
227. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons 277. The Newton Letter, John Banville
228. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis 278. On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
229. Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt 279. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
230. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 280. The Names, Don DeLillo
231. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard 281. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
232. Foe, J.M. Coetzee 282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
233. The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi 283. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
234. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel 284. July's People, Nadine Gordimer
235. The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann 285. Summer in Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
236. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 286. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson 287. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
238. The Cider House Rules, John Irving 288. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
239. A Maggot, John Fowles 289. Rites of Passage, William Golding
240. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis 290. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
241. Contact, Carl Sagan 291. Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
242. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 292. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
243. Perfume, Patrick Suskind 293. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan 343. The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
Kundera 344. The Castle of Crossed Destines, Italo Calvino
295. Smiley's People, John Le Carre 345. Crash, J.G. Ballard
296. Shikasta, Doris Lessing 346. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
297. A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul 347. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
298. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer 348. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
299. The Safety Net, Heinrich Boll 349. Sula, Toni Morrison
300. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino 350. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
301. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas 351. The Breast, Philip Roth
Adams 352. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
302. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan 353. G, John Berger
303. The World According to Garp, John Irving 354. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
304. Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec 355. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
305. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch 356. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
306. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell 357. The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
307. Yes, Thomas Bernhard 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S.
308. The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt Thompson
309. In the Heart of the Country, J.M. Coetzee 359. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
310. The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter 360. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
311. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin 361. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
312. The Shining, Stephen King 362. The Sea of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
313. Dispatches, Michael Herr 363. The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
314. Petals of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 364. The Ogre, Michael Tournier
315. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 365. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
316. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector 366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
317. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke 367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
318. Ratner's Star, Don DeLillo 368. Mercier et Camier, Samuel Becket
319. The Public Burning, Robert Coover 369. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
320. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice 370. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
321. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg 371. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
322. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme 372. Tent of Miracles, Jorge Amado
323. Patterns of Childhood, Christa Wolf 373. Pricksongs and Descants, Robert Coover
324. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 374. Blind Man With a Pistol, Chester Hines
325. W, or the Memory of Childhood, Georges Perec 375. Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
326. A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell 376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
327. Grimus, Salman Rushdie 377. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
328. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme 378. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
329. Fateless, Imre Kertesz 379. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan 380. Ada, Vladimir Nabokov
331. High Rise, J.G. Ballard 381. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
332. Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow 382. A Void/Avoid, Georges Perec
333. Dead Babies, Martin Amis 383. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
334. Correction, Thomas Bernhard 384. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
335. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow 385. The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
336. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle 386. Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
337. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee 387. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boll 388. The First Circle, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
340. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
341. Fear of Flying, Erica Jong 391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid,
342. A Question of Power, Bessie Head Malcolm Lowry
392. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz 440. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan 441. Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
394. A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines 442. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
395. The Quest for Christa T., Christa Wolf 443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
396. Chocky, John Wyndham 444. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe 445. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
398. The Cubs and Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa 446. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García 447. Faces in the Water, Janet Frame
Márquez 448. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
400. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 449. Cat and Mouse, Günter Grass
401. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
402. The Joke, Milan Kundera 451. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
403. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson 452. The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor
404. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien 453. How It Is, Samuel Beckett
405. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec 454. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
406. The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West 455. The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
407. Trawl, B.S. Johnson 456. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
408. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote 457. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
409. The Magus, John Fowles 458. Promise at Dawn, Romain Gary
410. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras 459. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
411. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys 460. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
412. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth 461. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
413. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon 462. The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
414. Things, Georges Perec 463. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
415. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o 464. Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
416. August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien 465. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut 466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
O’Connor 468. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
419. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector 469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring, Kenzaburo
420. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey Oe
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme 470. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
422. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson 471. The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
423. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe 472. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras 473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
425. Herzog, Saul Bellow 474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
426. V., Thomas Pynchon 475. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
427. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut 476. The End of the Road, John Barth
428. The Graduate, Charles Webb 477. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
429. Manon des Sources, Marcel Pagnol 478. The Bell, Iris Murdoch
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carré 479. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
431. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark 480. Voss, Patrick White
432. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess 481. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
433. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 482. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr 483. Homo Faber, Max Frisch
Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 484. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
435. The Collector, John Fowles 485. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey 486. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
437. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess 487. The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
438. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov 488. Justine, Lawrence Durrell
439. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard 489. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
490. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon 541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, Simon
491. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary Vestdijk
492. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 542. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
493. The Floating Opera, John Barth 543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
494. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 544. The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
495. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith 545. Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
496. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 546. The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
497. A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
498. The Trusting and the Maimed, James Plunkett 548. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
499. The Quiet American, Graham Greene 549. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
500. The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis 550. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
501. The Recognitions, William Gaddis 551. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
502. The Ragazzi , Pier Paulo Pasolini 552. Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
503. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan 553. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
504. I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch 554. The Victim, Saul Bellow
505. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis 555. Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
506. The Story of O, Pauline Réage 556. If This Is a Man, Primo Levi
507. A Ghost at Noon, Alberto Moravia 557. Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
508. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino
509. Under the Net, Iris Murdoch 559. The Plague, Albert Camus
510. The Go-Between , L.P. Hartley 560. Back, Henry Green
511. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler 561. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
512. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett 562. The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andri
513. Watt, Samuel Beckett 563. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
514. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis 564. Animal Farm, George Orwell
515. Junkie, William Burroughs 565. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
516. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 566. The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin 567. Loving, Henry Green
518. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming 568. Arcanum 17, André Breton
519. The Judge and His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt 569. Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
520. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 570. The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
521. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 571. Transit, Anna Seghers
522. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor 572. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
523. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson 573. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
524. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar 574. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
525. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett 575. Caught, Henry Green
526. Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham 576. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
527. Foundation, Isaac Asimov 577. Embers, Sandor Marai
528. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq 578. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
529. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 579. The Outsider, Albert Camus
530. The Rebel, Albert Camus 580. In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
531. Molloy, Samuel Beckett 581. The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
532. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene 582. The Living and the Dead, Patrick White
533. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille 583. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz 584. Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
535. The Third Man, Graham Greene 585. The Hamlet, William Faulkner
536. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber 586. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
537. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
538. The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing 588. Native Son, Richard Wright
539. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov 589. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
540. The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese 590. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
591. Party Going, Henry Green 641. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
592. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 642. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
593. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce 643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude
594. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien Stein
595. Coming Up for Air, George Orwell 644. Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
596. Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood 645. A Day Off, Storm Jameson
597. Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller 646. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
598. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys 647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song), Lewis Grassic Gibbon
599. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler 648. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand
600. After the Death of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Céline
Warner 649. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson 650. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
602. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre 651. To the North, Elizabeth Bowen
603. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 652. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
604. Cause for Alarm, Eric Ambler 653. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
605. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene 654. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
606. U.S.A., John Dos Passos 655. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
607. Murphy, Samuel Beckett 656. Cakes and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
608. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 657. The Apes of God, Wyndham Lewis
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston 658. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
610. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien 659. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
611. The Years, Virginia Woolf 660. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
612. In Parenthesis, David Jones 661. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
613. The Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis 662. Passing, Nella Larsen
614. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) 663. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
615. To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway 664. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
616. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner 665. Living, Henry Green
617. Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley 666. The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
618. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West 667. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria
619. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell Remarque
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell 668. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
621. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson 669. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
622. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner 670. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
623. At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft 671. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
624. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes 672. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
625. Independent People, Halldór Laxness 673. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
626. Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti 674. Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
627. The Last of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood 675. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy 676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
629. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen 677. The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
630. England Made Me, Graham Greene 678. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
631. Burmese Days, George Orwell 679. Quartet, Jean Rhys
632. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers 680. Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
633. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht 681. Quicksand, Nella Larsen
634. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev 682. Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain 683. Nadja, André Breton
636. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller 684. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
637. A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh 685. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
638. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald 686. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
639. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse 687. Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson
640. Call it Sleep, Henry Roth 688. Amerika, Franz Kafka
689. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 739. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
690. Blindness, Henry Green 740. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
691. The Castle, Franz Kafka 741. Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
692. The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek 742. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
693. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand, Luigi 744. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
Pirandello 745. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie 746. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
696. The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein 747. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
697. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos 748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert
698. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf Tressell
699. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 749. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
700. The Counterfeiters, André Gide 750. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
701. The Trial, Franz Kafka 751. The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
702. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky 752. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
703. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather 753. Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville 754. Howards End, E.M. Forster
705. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen 755. Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel
706. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann 756. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
707. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin 757. Martin Eden, Jack London
708. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster 758. Strait is the Gate, André Gide
709. The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet 759. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
710. Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo 760. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
711. Cane, Jean Toomer 761. A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
712. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley 762. The Iron Heel, Jack London
713. Amok, Stefan Zweig 763. The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
714. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield 764. The House on the Borderland, William Hope
715. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings Hodgson
716. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf 765. Mother, Maxim Gorky
717. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 766. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
718. The Glimpses of the Moon, Edith Wharton 767. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair 768. Young Törless, Robert Musil
720. The Last Days of Humanity, Karl Kraus 769. The Forsyte Sage, John Galsworthy
721. Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence 770. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
722. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 771. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
723. Ulysses, James Joyce 772. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
724. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence 773. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
725. Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley 774. Hadrian the Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
726. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton 775. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
727. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis 776. The Ambassadors, Henry James
728. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence 777. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
729. Night and Day, Virginia Woolf 778. The Immoralist, André Gide
730. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis 779. The Wings of the Dove , Henry James
731. The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West 780. Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad
732. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan
733. Summer, Edith Wharton Doyle
734. Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsen 782. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
735. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton 783. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce 784. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
737. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse 785. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
738. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
1800's 832. The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
833. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., Somerville and 834. Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
Ross 835. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
787. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane 836. Nana, Émile Zola
788. The Awakening, Kate Chopin 837. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
789. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 838. The Red Room, August Strindberg
790. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells 839. Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
791. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells 840. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
792. What Maisie Knew, Henry James 841. Drunkard, Émile Zola
793. Fruits of the Earth, André Gide 842. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
794. Dracula, Bram Stoker 843. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
795. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz 844. The Hand of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells 845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
797. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells 846. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
798. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane 847. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
799. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy 848. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
800. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross 849. In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
801. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 850. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
802. Born in Exile, George Gissing 851. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
803. Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith 852. Spring Torrent, Ivan Turgenev
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur 853. Middlemarch, George Eliot
Conan Doyle 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found
805. News from Nowhere, William Morris There, Lewis Carroll
806. New Grub Street, George Gissing 855. King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf 856. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 857. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 858. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
810. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy 859. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
811. La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola 860. Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont
812. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg 861. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
813. Hunger, Knut Hamsun 862. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
814. The Master of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson 863. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
815. Pierre and Jean, Guy de Maupassant 864. Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
816. Fortunata and Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés 865. The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
817. The People of Hemsö, August Strindberg 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
818. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy 867. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
819. She, H. Rider Haggard 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert 869. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Louis Stevenson 870. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 871. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
822. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson 872. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
823. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard 873. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
824. Germinal, Émile Zola 874. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 875. Silas Marner, George Eliot
826. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant 876. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
827. Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater 877. On the Eve, Ivan Turgenev
828. Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans 878. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy 879. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
830. A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant 880. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
831. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 881. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
882. Max Havelaar, Multatuli 930. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
883. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 931. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
884. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov 932. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
885. Adam Bede, George Eliot 933. Persuasion, Jane Austen
886. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 934. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
887. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell 935. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
888. Hard Times, Charles Dickens 936. Emma, Jane Austen
889. Walden, Henry David Thoreau 937. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
890. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 938. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
891. Villette, Charlotte Brontë 939. The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth
892. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell 940. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 941. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
894. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne 942. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
895. The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel
Hawthorne 1700's
896. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
943. Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin
897. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
944. The Nun, Denis Diderot
898. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
945. Camilla, Fanny Burney
899. Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
946. The Monk, M.G. Lewis
900. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
947. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
von Goethe
902. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
948. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
903. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
949. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
904. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
950. The Adventures of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
905. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
951. Justine, Marquis de Sade
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
952. Vathek, William Beckford
907. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
953. The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
908. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
954. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
909. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
955. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
910. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
956. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
911. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
957. Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques
912. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
Rousseau
913. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
958. Evelina, Fanny Burney
914. Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
959. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang
915. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
von Goethe
916. The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
960. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,
961. The Man of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
Charles Dickens
962. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
918. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
963. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
919. The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
964. The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
920. Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
965. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
921. Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
966. Émile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
967. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
923. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
968. Julie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
924. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
969. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
925. Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
970. Candide, Voltaire
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified
971. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
Sinner, James Hogg
972. Amelia, Henry Fielding
927. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
973. Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett
928. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
974. Fanny Hill, John Cleland
929. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
975. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
976. Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett
977. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
978. Pamela, Samuel Richardson
979. Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay,
T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
981. Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
982. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
983. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
984. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
985. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
986. Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood
987. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
988. A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700

989. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn


990. The Princess of Clèves, Marie-Madelaine Pioche de
Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
992. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
993. The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe
994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, John Lyly
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais
996. The Thousand and One Nights, Anonymous
997. The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
998. Aithiopika, Heliodorus
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe, Chariton
1000. Metamorphoses, Ovid
1001. Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus

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